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Great Ocean Road Adventure Race 2007

A staged race in a beautiful area: the Great Ocean Road and the Otways. Jez is support crew for Marcus and Jude. On the second day we start with a paddle which turns out to be my most scary paddle ever. We leave the Bay of Islands sheltered area to venture in the Bass Strait on a calm day, but my goodness those waves are big!! And the surf is very impressive and hits hard when you break through. Thanks to Marcus we survive… Unfortunately we don’t finish the race, but we enjoy a great holiday following the race and exploring the area.

The 400km Keen Adventure Race took teams of two on an epic five-day, four-stage journey. Each stage had a distinct start and finish, with the field starting each new stage together, with the overall winner being the team with the lowest accumulated time. Each stage had many checkpoints, and failure to reach a checkpoint resulted in severe time penalties.

Prologue – Port Campbell

leg 1 – jump off Port Campbell’s pier for a 400m swim

leg 2 – 800m kayak then into the wind for another 2km to round a buoy before heading back to the beach

leg 3 – 11km run / orienteering around Port Campbell where you had to pick up 10 out of 11 CPs

Stage 1 Bay of Islands to Cape Otway Lighthouse

leg 1 – 16km kayak at dawn from Bay of Islands back to Port Campbell, where several kayaks were severely damaged in the carnage

leg 2 – 20km mtb, along the Great Ocean Road coastline and past the Twelve Apostles